The Dickinson press., 1887-08-20
DYsPEPTlc NEWSPAPER MEN.
Ones Physical Condition Sure to Affect
His Writing-Sevcral Cases.


l have great sympathy for u dyspeptc
newspaper man; the suffering he eni,res is
lcyond expression. And whether hc wishes
it or not his own physical condition is sure to
lm reflected i'll whatever he writes The brain
and the stomach are so Intimately connected
THAI if the latter is raw and irltatetl, or weak
and Inefficient, the former suffers in the same
de5I,'c through reflex action, and the thoughts
c!laniiug thence receive Il certain colorinr.
| rorollnct once upon a time sitting at ban
qu,,t III tie Astor house, in New York city,
given in honor of some newspaper men, at
which Horace Greeley presided. | was at his
lclr lIa;id and had fine opportunity to study
lii table manners and see with my own eyes
what il." philosopher fed upon, for, as ltose
l..!<a''slh Cleveland said in her Lippincott's
.A.t' ".il'" poem, what ue eats has Il vast in
t'irnrr "Nvi' what one thinks and does. AL
though ,lH' table at the As.or house was
l;"''I w!'i good things, of which tho lesser
il,.'r III journalism plrtuok b"umtiiuliv, Mr.
t'!f"h cuntcntcd himself Will, IL bowl of
pIalH broad and milk and fruit, the sam. food
he ut" when IL boy i'll New Hampshire. And
if lc finally lost his mind and died in Il pri-
waite asylum it was through no fault in his
habits of living: through no tant or disease
like rMiuniiti,in, cancer, dyspepsia Bright's
disease, heart trouble, or any other of tho
dreadful ills which attack and carry off so
many morlals
The man who is simple in his habits of liv.
in.e, us President Cleveland is, for instance.
and as MIR. Greeley was, can accomplish a
vast amount Of wo!'l; every day, and not
break down. ] am led To these remarks bv
noticing that u. l.. White, the voracious
newspaper correspondent, is very i'll in New
York city with Il terrific attack of dyspepsia.
TI" li~i Tim" saw him in Washington lie
looked thin and half used up. He had then
Just come on from Provi,lcncc, r. L., where
Ii" had abandoned The Star to its fate Since
then he has been l,ltrhng into newspaper
amt magazine writing at II brealinecii speed,
fua'Iiii- back AMI forth between New York
anal Washington, interviewing everybody,
G"!mS to clubs, writing up sketches of seii;,-
tors, etc, until lie broke down. a man with
II weak stomach cannot stand such mental
sran-there is no nervous energy left to
digest food and supply nutrition IL has all
been coined into ideas for pot boilers"
Such II course is suicidal: us suicidal as was
the life of Ben rrrlcy Poorc, who is said, il,
Washington, To have dug his grave with his
teeth. He Was IL asoullnanl, fond of big dim
n"rS, and always eating them if he had n
chance, anl he managed to get the o,upor.
iuni'y lrrtty often, Ik" Dr Howard
Grossly, he was fond of his glass of Wine, and
took it. The result WIS lie grew to he cnor-
m"usly fat-n very elephant of man: his
kidneys broke down under the enormous
amount of work imposed upon them, and he
died.
1t seems, therefore, quite as bad to lie
;sluiton as it is to be ndysmptr, from
literary point of view. But. you say, Car.
ly" was dysrcptir The reply is lie would
have been much more of Il man than n was
If he had had IL sound stomach. In any
event, Ii" was Il genius Much can be for
given on that score. Washington Cor. Kan.
HlS CITY journal.